# Chutes AI

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Chutes AI and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A subscription service for running open-weight AI models on GPUs, with TEE instances that keep prompts private from the GPU owners.

## Why people recommend it

- Trusted execution environment keeps prompts private (5 comments): "models are served from a Trusted Execution Environment, so the GPU owners can't see your prompts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623079)) "Chutes is mostly pretty good (cryptographic security all the way to the GPU)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535073)) "they always use the full weights, and prompts are encrypted with TEE" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879851))
- Cheap access to large open models (3 comments): "One can run open weights in an exclusive TEE'd GPU too, which still comes out cheaper than closed weight LLMs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942054)) "This gives you practically unlimited usage of frontier models like kimi, deepseek, glm." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083620)) "I can use much bigger and faster models on the $3 Chutes subscription" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538121))
- Full weights and exact model configs (2 comments): "they always use the full weights, and prompts are encrypted with TEE" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879851)) "They tell you exactly which model/quant and server config they use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049876))

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## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://chutes.ai/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Chutes AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/chutes/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).